Eagles Mentions in the Press (2006 - 2017)

[thelastresort]

To be fair though what could give you more enthusiasm than realising forty years later you can still do a 100-day tour over two continents and sell out practically every night?

[Thirsty&Hot]

To be fair though what could give you more enthusiasm than realising forty years later you can still do a 100-day tour over two continents and sell out practically every night?

Seriously!

[Elizasong]

Hello,

I am reading the autobiography from Paul Stanley of KISS and he recalls when they performed for a bunch of industry people the first time in California.

On February 18th Casablanca unveiled KISS at a party in Los Angeles. Before they finished playing everybody cleared the room. Too loud, too garish they complained. "Hey we weren't the Eagles. No comfortable volume of songs about being desperate in a desert. We were East coast and proud of it and thought the whole west coast cowboy things was a bit of a joke."

Ironically there is a picture of Paul Stanley and Glenn Frey at the RRHOF.

[Freypower]

Here is the Kiss thread:

https://eaglesonlinecentral.com/foru...ead.php?t=3988

[Elizasong]

Ok, Feel free to move my post if you feel it doesn't belong in this section. Thanks.

[VAisForEagleLovers]

I think FP meant it as a reference for more KISS posts. It's an Eagles Message Board, so an Eagles mention trumps the rest, so it should be in the Eagles forum. If I were to move it, it would be to the Eagles Press thread, but perhaps it's just me.

[UndertheWire]

The Guardian has a piece about bands reuniting and naturally includes the Eagles in the examples.

The heady power of being in a band is the invisible elastic that will, almost always, eventually prompt one musician to pick up the phone to their estranged colleague and ask them if, hey, they fancy getting back together. Because however agonising it was back then, (a) you're still the only people with that shared experience (no one else quite understands you like an old bandmate); (b) a reunion makes your audience happy in a way your solo stuff rarely does; and, most compellingly, (c) bitch gotta make rent.

It seems there is no inter-band bust-up so awful that cannot be mended by the judicious bringing to bear of (a), (b) and (c). After a decade of substance abuse and serial infidelity, the Eagles had descended into a complex but bitter intra-band rivalry measured out in the amount of drugs ingested and groupies procured, and brought to a head by niggling personal habits. "No one else can suck the fun out of a room," said Glenn Frey about Don Henley – possibly referring to the drummer's habit of penning letters to the studio's maid with specific instructions on how the toilet paper should be folded(the little pink flowers needed to be folded on the undersides of the sheets, this being how they did it in Hotel California presumably). As the 70s drew to a close, the rivalries intensified. Don Felder: "I bought my wife Susan a beautiful kimono, hand-embroidered, in heavy material. Don Henley bought 20."

Before a concert in Long Beach, California, tensions between Felder and Frey came to a head when Felder took umbrage at the backstage presence of Frey's politician friends. The pair exchanged insults on stage ("I'm gonna kill you", "Bring it on, asshole!"). After the gig, Felder vented his rage on his guitar – only for Frey to issue the fabulously catty riposte: "Typical of you to break your cheapest guitar." A week later, inevitably, the Eagles were no more. The band, of course, would drily name their reunion tour Hell Freezes Over – an allusion to Henley's stock answer when asked if there was any likelihood of the band reforming. No one was pretending the Eagles were best buddies once again. We're all a little older and more pragmatic. At the beginning, bands grow out of friendship; and at the end, well, bands grow out of those friendships.

[Thirsty&Hot]

‘It was inappropriately titled’: Did ‘History of the Eagles’ focus too much on Glenn Frey and Don Henley?

welll I can't say I'm complaining, but I suppose if it could have been longer and included the background/biographies of all of the members, I would've dug that too.

I guess they figured Glenn and Don were the founding members and therefore, how they got their start was most important in the formation of Eagles.

[Freypower]

What else do you expect Don Felder to say.

[thelastresort]

Obviously Felder would say that but he does have a point I think. You find out every little detail of Henley and Glenn's backgrounds but practically zilch on Randy's history or Felder's considerable stints with Crosby, Stills and Nash (in various combinations); and very little on Bernie or the James Gang and Joe's long involvement with hard rock dating back to the late 60s. Mention is made of Poco for TBS but again nothing on his longer term background. One of very few shortcomings of HOTE I felt.